Only because I have a chip on my shoulder about this, do we have a non or negligible SW warning, for stuff that was intended for NSWFF, but got pulled over here because the author mentioned or cameo'd a SW element.

I saw that we have 'crossover', but that would imply more or equal SW content, I feel.

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Not the place for airing of grievances. If you have an issue with why a story was moved, PM the mod that did it.

Will you be adding Rose? And as other characters pop up as the movies get released, will this list be editable in the future or are you planning to pretty much lock it down?

Also, this is an awesome feature and it finally gives some type of a search!

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YES! ROSE! As I said above, we pulled the list from FF.N so new characters probably weren't a part of it. We can edit this list at any time, it's just a lot easier to add a bunch of tags at once, rather than a few every day or two.

A few more suggestions from me (these are just ideas I'm throwing out there):

Under Characters – General:

Add a "Minor canon character" tag as a catch-all for anyone who isn't named individually (and possibly "Minor Legends character" as well).
I'd replace "Bounty Hunter" with a slightly wider category, e.g. "Underworld" or "Scoundrels".
A separate tag for Mandalorians could also be an option, and possibly a "SkySolos" tag for stories that deal with the family as a whole.

Under Relationships:

We probably need one or more tags for Obi-Wan's relationships. The way I did this in the resource index was to have general categories for characters that are written in multiple relationships, e.g. "Obi-Wan romantic relationships" (includes Siriwan, Obitine, etc), "Jaina Solo romantic relationships" (includes J/J, J/Z, K/J etc). This could be a way to limit the total number of tags.
As a side note, K/J isn't on the list right now.

Under Genre:

Add Time-travel

Under Length:

Add Series, Songfic, Script

Under Timelines:

Add "Distant past" and "Far future".

Under General:

"Movie-based story" vs "EU-based story" or something along those lines
"Collaborative work" and "Round-robin"
Multimedia (for stories that have soundtracks, for example)

Lastly, I think we should add a "content warning" tag for fics addressing sensitive issues (violence/torture/drugs etc). In the same vein, add an Inter-Species Romantic Relationship tag since this is something that stories should be labelled with when applicable.

Lastly, I think we should add a "content warning" tag for fics addressing sensitive issues (violence/torture/drugs etc). In the same vein, add an Inter-Species Romantic Relationship tag since this is something that stories should be labelled with when applicable.

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Second this. Might want to add a warning for major character death, too.

Also, just thinking at 4:30 am because my son’s video game woke me up (go to sleep!): do we need all those timelines if we have the prefixes? Could we streamline there?

And do you want a tag for those Legends/new canon mashups? We don’t get many but choosing a prefix that fits a story like that can get dicey.

Add a "Minor canon character" tag as a catch-all for anyone who isn't named individually (and possibly "Minor Legends character" as well).

Add "Distant past" and "Far future".

Lastly, I think we should add a "content warning" tag for fics addressing sensitive issues (violence/torture/drugs etc). In the same vein, add an Inter-Species Romantic Relationship tag since this is something that stories should be labelled with when applicable.

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These, yes.

I was adding my tags until silly hours in the morning and realised that nothing matches my 10 000 ABY story.

Do we need all those timelines if we have the prefixes? Could we streamline there?

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IMO this depends on how many prefixes we choose to have. With the multi-prefix system we could just as well keep only "New Canon", "Legends", "Mashup" and "Before", "Saga" and "Beyond" as prefixes, and then use the tags to refine the search for specific timelines under these broad headings.

Do we need all those timelines if we have the prefixes? Could we streamline there?

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IMO this depends on how many prefixes we choose to have. With the multi-prefix system we could just as well keep only "New Canon", "Legends", "Mashup" and "Before", "Saga" and "Beyond" as prefixes, and then use the tags to refine the search for specific timelines under these broad headings.

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This is pretty much it. We haven't 100% decided on prefixes, we have 2 similar options that are these broad headings. The timeline tags just allow people to further refine or get really specific, if they want.

Also, this is where I admit that I am stupid - I used to be so.much against separate threads for every single thing (okay, that one time a single drabble had its own thread was odd, but otherwise, no), now I understand why they're a good idea, with this system at all...and one other thing, yes. Considering calling mine a day in 2018.

On that note...I find reposts from, like, 2013-2016 to be a debatable, awkward thing. Why do so when the story is not truncated and in good condition? Just find a friend to comment on it and bump it, or submit it to the read and review tag challenge. Kind of unfair to everybody else.

Had nowhere else to post it & wanted to say it in public. Still sleepy and grumpy...

This isn't really a tag question, but I just realized that I can't edit my title line to add an update date. Help?

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Something happened when they fixed the prefixes (no one could filter by them) and now only mods can edit titles even though the permissions show as correct. We're working on figuring out what happened. There's a banner at the top of all of the fanfic boards.

I have observed that the search mechanism can find stuff of mine where the keyword has been mentioned in the thread or title.

Therefore, unless someone employs a tag that literally never appears in their story or series, I am not sure what the tag system offers, that the search doesn't already do.

Edit: Put another way, perhaps we are going overboard with the tags.

As in @Chyntuck 's example above, entirely possible that "ensemble cast" is not going to be mentioned in the title, intro summary, or the fic itself; but character names, such as "Thrawn" or "Mara Jade" are likely to already get mentioned in the thread, so the search will already group them amongst its findings without creating a tag for them.

Yes, in that if you click on one it takes you to anything tagged with that. So if you are on a story that is tagged with AU and you want to find others you can just click on that tag and they pop up. I've done this a few times so far.

If you go to the tag search (click search, then "more", then the final tab is "search tags") you'll see a list of the most popular tags. Also there you can search by more than one tag, so if you want to find a story that has Luke as a major character and and is angsty, you type both of Luke and angst and it only shows you stories with both of those tags.